A friend and I were having a friendly squat competition in our local chain gym. There are a lot of awful stereotypes there but they had decent equipment so it was Ok.
We both turned to see a big fat dude yelling at the gym staff. They were explaining that he didn’t rack his weights and they have a rule about that. He kept arguing and they asked him to leave. He refused.
Ten minutes later, two police officers arrived and escorted the tubby fellow from the gym.
We were dumbfounded.
Ten pound plates in my gym disappear faster than single girls at a redneck family reunion.
Doing my workout today and looking around in between sets. I see a trainer working with two women. One of them is pregnant the other not, both about 30 years old, moms. But I was really impressed because he was showing them how to deadlift. And they had I think 135 doing about 10 reps. I’m thinking “Nice, for once they’re not showing someone how to do tricep kickbacks.”
Continue working out.
Later, same trainer working with a guy about 45 to 50 years old. Again, teaching him how to deadlift. Cool, teach them right. Then I see he’s deadlifting the same weight the pregnant lady had earlier. I saw the trainer when I was leaving.
Me: Where you going to tell that dude he was deadlifting as much as a pregnant lady?
Trainer: No but I should have, he kept complaining about it the whole time.
Trainer: And both of those ladies did more reps than him.
[quote]Jimmy6 wrote:
I hate my gym
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You would think people that train wouldn’t be so freaking lazy.
[quote]Jimmy6 wrote:
I hate my gym
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That’s disgusting.
Here’s my story:
Two kids are bench pressing with the squat pad on the bar. The first kid unracks the bar, DROPS it from lockout to his chest and bounces it back to lockout.
For reps. All under the vigilant eye of his pal.
[quote]JaseHxC wrote:
[quote]hockeydawg wrote:
There has been a guy who, in the last couple weeks, has started to workout at the same time as me. He is a lifter / shadowboxer. He’ll do a crappy half-assed lift and then proceed to shadowbox or “punch for reps” while looking at himself in the mirror.
For some reason, it really annoys the crap out of me. It was funny at first, but now it is just distracting, as he doesn’t even do it out of the way, he will do it anywhere in the gym, even right next to you.
Is my annoyance justified, or do I just need to lighten up and laugh at him and move on?
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We have two of these guys at my gym, however one is a professional kickboxer and an incredibly nice guy. He will go off into the corner, or in the event it’s busy, just lift and GTFO. The other “gentlemen” wears tap out and well, I guess you call it shadow boxing but he does it after he finishes whatever exercises he says fighters doing on TV. These exercises, much like his shadowboxing, is re-tah-did
Moral of the story, you don’t need to lighten up. Boxing/MMA gyms exist for people who want to box, the gym is for lifting weights.[/quote]
We have a similar asshat at our gym. He’ll do a set of standing dual cable curls then superset that shit with… shadowboxing?
No. He’s too good for that.
Motherfucker starts pop-and-locking right there in the middle of the goddamn gym. Doesn’t matter if your next to him or not.
FUCK I raged.
[quote]NvrTooLate wrote:
[quote]vinscay wrote:
Not quite Squat rack curls put pretty funny.
Yes he’s right, I’ll never look like him because I train legs…[/quote]
Check out 7:10
[quote]Jimmy6 wrote:
I hate my gym
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Damn. I worked at a gym in undergrad, during my shift I chilled at the free weights instead of the desk and made people clean their crap up
a group of guys, a couple regular, about 3 new and thin as rails were training together last night. the group had 2 squat racks tied up, the regulars were curling with the Oly bar and 35’s and the newbies had the Oly bar and some nickels.
thank the gods we have a power rack…else I would’ve had to wait to do some actual squats.
[quote]Extremepain wrote:
Doing my workout today and looking around in between sets. I see a trainer working with two women. One of them is pregnant the other not, both about 30 years old, moms. But I was really impressed because he was showing them how to deadlift. And they had I think 135 doing about 10 reps. I’m thinking “Nice, for once they’re not showing someone how to do tricep kickbacks.”
Continue working out.
Later, same trainer working with a guy about 45 to 50 years old. Again, teaching him how to deadlift. Cool, teach them right. Then I see he’s deadlifting the same weight the pregnant lady had earlier. I saw the trainer when I was leaving.
Me: Where you going to tell that dude he was deadlifting as much as a pregnant lady?
Trainer: No but I should have, he kept complaining about it the whole time.
Trainer: And both of those ladies did more reps than him.[/quote]
Pregnant woman deadlifted 135 lbs for reps? How far along was she?
story i heard about a friend of a friend at the gym
he is a big guy, short temper
He was using the bench, went to get water but held up in conversation, 10 minutes away from the bench
a 19 yo kid, takes the plates off the barbell and takes the bench
the friend of a friend comes back the bench, and bitch slaps the kid, twice.
the kid tells management but says please don’t call the cops
well the kid’s parents found, went back to the gym and demanded they call 911
cops seize a video tape showing the assault
(we have vid cameras in the gym???)
the Gym loses 4 members, the kick out the friend of a friend, the 19 yo kid quits the gym, his girl quits, his buddy who witnessed the assault quits.
Please don’t leave your weights sitting there for 10 minutes, especially when the gym is busy.
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
story i heard about a friend of a friend at the gym
he is a big guy, short temper
He was using the bench, went to get water but held up in conversation, 10 minutes away from the bench
a 19 yo kid, takes the plates off the barbell and takes the bench
the friend of a friend comes back the bench, and bitch slaps the kid, twice.
the kid tells management but says please don’t call the cops
well the kid’s parents found, went back to the gym and demanded they call 911
cops seize a video tape showing the assault
(we have vid cameras in the gym???)
the Gym loses 4 members, the kick out the friend of a friend, the 19 yo kid quits the gym, his girl quits, his buddy who witnessed the assault quits.
Please don’t leave your weights sitting there for 10 minutes, especially when the gym is busy.
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More like don’t slap an innocent kid who made an honest mistake. What a d bag that dude is.
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
story i heard about a friend of a friend at the gym
he is a big guy, short temper
He was using the bench, went to get water but held up in conversation, 10 minutes away from the bench
a 19 yo kid, takes the plates off the barbell and takes the bench
the friend of a friend comes back the bench, and bitch slaps the kid, twice.
the kid tells management but says please don’t call the cops
well the kid’s parents found, went back to the gym and demanded they call 911
cops seize a video tape showing the assault
(we have vid cameras in the gym???)
the Gym loses 4 members, the kick out the friend of a friend, the 19 yo kid quits the gym, his girl quits, his buddy who witnessed the assault quits.
Please don’t leave your weights sitting there for 10 minutes, especially when the gym is busy.
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Cool story, bro
I side with the 19 yo, of course. then again I don’t need to get beaten up now for posting LOL
hahahahahha
That story was not amusing in the least.
That kid does need to grow some balls and stand up for himself though.
An ass kicking hurts less than having your dignity stolen from you like that.
[quote]Simon Adebisi wrote:
That story was not amusing in the least.
That kid does need to grow some balls and stand up for himself though.
An ass kicking hurts less than having your dignity stolen from you like that.[/quote]
We have no idea what the difference in size was. Plus, do you really expect to ever get in a fight in the gym.
No, I don’t.
Then again, I don’t usually ever expect to get into a fight.
Only morons walk around looking for or expecting trouble.
Size difference be damned…clobber him in the parking lot.
There’s no such thing as a fair fight.
I mean, if you aren’t willing to call the cops over it, what other option do you have other than being a complete bitch?
not true, brah
knocked some tough guy out at me gym when i was 18-19(dont remember)…spit on his body lulz…
got banned from golds…have to go to ballys now
A while ago, some bandana wearing guy started doing the typical 1/4 (if I’m generous) rep squats in the Smith.
Worked his way (ok hardly worked) up and decided to load 250kg/550lbs onto the bar.
Some guy warned him he doesn’t belong under anywhere near that amount of weight and that he could hurt himself. The guy carried on regardless. He unhooked the bar and proceeded to do even more shallow reps than previously seen. He finished, turned the bar back to hook it, didn’t realise it wasn’t on the catches properly, then tried to walk out, only to have the full force of gravity bringing down the wrath of 550lbs down on his back, almost folding him up like an accordion, breaking his back.
Oh I forgot to mention, he left a bench right infront of where he was squatting. Smashed his face up on it on the way down, definitely not for the faint hearted.
Everyone rushed over to pull the weights off him (although I sort of wanted to take pictures and post them up everywhere to try and detract the other retards from doing dumb shit) and he was taken out on a stretcher.
Everyone has been talking about it since. I don’t wish harm on anybody but I hope his fuck up might make even just a few people there that day think about what they are doing from now on.
Few days ago, some guy was actually hogging the squat rack for 30 minutes doing curls with not just one barbell, but two. And no, not the smaller ones that come in different non removeable weights, these were two of only 3 olympic barbells in my gym. I came back to use the rack when I needed it a little while later to find both bars, loaded with weights, on top of each other on the floor in front of the rack. Raged.
[quote]TommyGunz32 wrote:
[quote]Meni69 wrote:
story i heard about a friend of a friend at the gym
he is a big guy, short temper
He was using the bench, went to get water but held up in conversation, 10 minutes away from the bench
a 19 yo kid, takes the plates off the barbell and takes the bench
the friend of a friend comes back the bench, and bitch slaps the kid, twice.
the kid tells management but says please don’t call the cops
well the kid’s parents found, went back to the gym and demanded they call 911
cops seize a video tape showing the assault
(we have vid cameras in the gym???)
the Gym loses 4 members, the kick out the friend of a friend, the 19 yo kid quits the gym, his girl quits, his buddy who witnessed the assault quits.
Please don’t leave your weights sitting there for 10 minutes, especially when the gym is busy.
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More like don’t slap an innocent kid who made an honest mistake. What a d bag that dude is.
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yeah what a douche. I used to train in a gym with those kind of worthless assholes. They take their steroids and thinks they are the kings of the world. fuck them